The Reagan Administration's Fiscal Year 1988 Budget: Undermining the Health of Older Americans : a Report |
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$20 Billion 1988 HEALTH BUDGET 23 million needy 30 million uninsured 35 percent 50 percent Administration's proposal Alabama BUDDY MACKAY Americans become eligible BEN ERDREICH billion by 1992 budget proposals capital costs chronically ill elderly cian assistant CLAUDE PEPPER current beneficiaries current law cuts doctor DRG Rate elderly and disabled elderly's eligible for Medicare enacted Federal Medicaid payments Federal payments financed fiscal year 1988 FLORIDA NORMAN SISISKY Guam health care costs health research HELEN DELICH BENTLEY ical IKE SKELTON Impact incomes JAN MEYERS Jersey CLAUDINE SCHNEIDER Kansas BEN BLAZ long-term long-term care MARY ROSE OAKAR Matching rates Medi Medicare beneficiaries Medicare coverage Medicare Payments Medicare pays Medicare program million needy Americans million uninsured Americans nursing home older Americans Pennsylvania CHRISTOPHER physi physician assistant poverty President Reagan's President's fiscal provide health RALPH REGULA Ranking Minority Member Reagan Administration reduction RON WYDEN seniors services performed Tennessee MARY ROSE York JIM COURTER
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Page 5 - basic" plan providing protection against the costs of hospital and related care financed through a separate payroll tax and trust fund, and (2) a "supplementary" plan providing for physicians...
Page 3 - Contributing to the elderly's skyrocketing health care expenses has been the rapid escalation of Medicare premiums and coinsurance.
Page 3 - Table 1 on the following page illustrates, in 1966 the average American age 65 and older spent some $110 for health care.